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I use Google all the time in these discussions. Usually I have a foothold on the subject, and googling helps me to amplify or fill out my thoughts. I can verify things I think I know. I can find out things that I believe are pertinent to the topic, but don't have specific knowledge about. I can learn that my memory is sometimes so good, I remember things that aren't even true! In a way, the stuff in the wet matter inside your skull is just the OS. Google is the storage. |
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Well, of course. It's opera. And this allows me to say "kill the wabbit!"
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As between 3 and 6, I would say that the story is six books, not a trilogy, which would make it a <check Google> a hexology. But it seems to me that Tolkien used the word "book" within LotR as being closer in meaning to "chapter" than to a book as most of us tend to use the word. Tolkien's usage verges on being an archaic one - as suits the story. So on the whole, I think it is one book, to rule them all. Last edited by Harmon; 06-15-2009 at 09:43 PM. |
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For example: The same can be said about Terry Brooks and his Shanara series. The Heritage of Shannara - 4 books. 1. The Scions of Shannara 2. The Druid of Shannara 3. The Elf Queen of Shannara 4. The Talismans of Shannara Just because someone decided to publish it as a single volume omnibus The Heritage of Shannara It doesn't make the series one book - The Heritage of Shannara. It is still only a name of 4 books saga and it is still 4 books saga, not a single book called The Heritage of Shannara. |
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With the very greatest respect, astra, that is totally untrue. Tolkien always saw it as a single book. Read his letters and you'll see numerous references to that. I could give you some quotes, but you're better off reading it for yourself if the subject interests you.
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The source I mentioned says 6 books. Although, his letters would lend more credibility. Even if I am wrong, and it is one book, it is still not a trilogy as it was told in previous posts. My point is Tolkien never saw it as a trilogy. If you are right, then it is not trilogy ![]() |
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Perhaps it is like the Bible, which can bee seen as one book, or as a collection of many books.
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1 book, 6 books -
what the heck - it's one story ..... |
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I'm growing tired of this. As GeoffC so pregnantly put it -- what the heck - it's one story.
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What we need is even more angels on this pin:
"The Lord of the Rings is not a trilogy: by the time it was being prepared for publication in 1950, Tolkien was thinking of it as a duology: a book of two parts, the other being The Silmarillion - a work concieved of as being of equal size to The Lord of the Rings (Letter 126 to Milton Waldon, 10/3/1950)." http://www.tolkiensociety.org/tolkien/tale.html Last edited by Harmon; 06-17-2009 at 11:30 PM. |
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